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Episode Synopsis
This week: the Queen on green, iron in batteries, how do you solve a problem like Facebook, and dismantling Apple’s beautiful walled App Store.
After our non-sponsor, we talk This Week in Crypto, including SEC-approved Bitcoin ETFs, BoE on crypto systemic risk, Jonathan votes in a DAO, and the metaverse of the commons.
Then in This Week in NFTs: Coinbase vs OpenSea, Shiboshi gas panic, turning down $9.5M for a CryptoPunk, NFT logins, Proof of Attendance; and we close out with CryptoPunk or CryptoFunk.
Links we mentioned:
Form Energy making multi-day energy storage using cheap, abundant, rusting iron:
https://formenergy.com/
The CEO of Form explains how they went about filling a very specific market need (July ‘21):
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-interchange/id1221460035?i=1000530458550
Alternative Form podcast link: Form Energy's Iron-Air Battery for Multi-Day Storage
ESS Iron Flow batteries backed by Gates and SoftBank, which SPAC’d last week:
https://essinc.com/
Affordable and authentic Japanese meals delivered in the London area (with £3 off using code 63214b): https://www.waso.tokyo/
After our non-sponsor, we talk This Week in Crypto, including SEC-approved Bitcoin ETFs, BoE on crypto systemic risk, Jonathan votes in a DAO, and the metaverse of the commons.
Then in This Week in NFTs: Coinbase vs OpenSea, Shiboshi gas panic, turning down $9.5M for a CryptoPunk, NFT logins, Proof of Attendance; and we close out with CryptoPunk or CryptoFunk.
Links we mentioned:
Form Energy making multi-day energy storage using cheap, abundant, rusting iron:
https://formenergy.com/
The CEO of Form explains how they went about filling a very specific market need (July ‘21):
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-interchange/id1221460035?i=1000530458550
Alternative Form podcast link: Form Energy's Iron-Air Battery for Multi-Day Storage
ESS Iron Flow batteries backed by Gates and SoftBank, which SPAC’d last week:
https://essinc.com/
Affordable and authentic Japanese meals delivered in the London area (with £3 off using code 63214b): https://www.waso.tokyo/
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